Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up.

I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'

Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me.

Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.